Overview
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power servers, desktops, and embedded systems. Derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley, FreeBSD has been continually developed by a large community for more than 30 years.
FreeBSD's networking, security, storage, and monitoring features, including the pf firewall, the Capsicum and CloudABI capability frameworks, the ZFS filesystem, and the DTrace dynamic tracing framework, make FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage systems.
Highlights
- FreeBSD provides access to over 26,000 third-party applications via the ports tree and binary packages.
- FreeBSD's widely-recognized stability and reliability and five-year support for stable branches makes it ideal for building long-lived services.
- Between Capsicum, Jails, CloudABI, and support for multiple firewalls, FreeBSD provides an unsurpassed security feature set.
Details
Typical total price
$0.012/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended | $0.00 | $0.012 | $0.012 |
t2.small | $0.00 | $0.023 | $0.023 |
t2.medium | $0.00 | $0.046 | $0.046 |
t2.large | $0.00 | $0.093 | $0.093 |
t2.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.186 | $0.186 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.371 | $0.371 |
m3.medium | $0.00 | $0.067 | $0.067 |
m3.large | $0.00 | $0.133 | $0.133 |
m3.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.266 | $0.266 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
This AMI launches with sshd running and the SSH public key you provide at launch time allowed to log in as ec2-user with passwordless "su" to root. To use this AMI, ensure that your EC2 security group allows SSH (tcp/22) from your location, and then "ssh ec2-user@
Resources
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Support
Vendor support
Support for FreeBSD is available via the mailing lists and FreeBSD Forums.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
FreeBSD 10 is an excellent operating system, basically UNIX but modern.
Using this for Redmine on t2.nano.
Wanted a micro/small instance which can host a low traffic Redmine instance. The Bitnami AMIs on GNU/Linux don't allow you to select t2 instances. So my next obvious choice was FreeBSD which has a recent version of Redmine in its repositories.
I am delighted to see the CPU credits getting saved as the OS itself is not utilizing significant CPU. Next, I can jail Redmine on this and upgrade to the next version of Redmine(when it is released) without affecting the users!
Pros: Uses UFS, not ZFS - Ideal for low end servers. Is lean, not too many applications installed using pkg.
Suggested Improvements: "su -" works without password, instead use sudo/doas.
Performance is incredible
The performance on this AMI is incredible. My new FreeBSD server, which is half the size of my old Ubuntu server, is incredibly fast and efficient.
This OS uses a lot less RAM. Everything was already configured, so I just had to run a few lines, install some packages, and voila--a Minecraft server that barely uses 250MB when in use!!
Great job
Great job, But ZFS is preferred to instead of UFS. Any plan to enable ZFS filesystem in the future version?
How to add IPs
- Add additional private IPs to your instance in EC2 dashboard (optional, one for each Elastic IP)
2. Find out what gateway you're currently using (look at first line under gateway):
> netstat -rn
3. Edit: /etc/rc.conf
> vi /etc/rc.conf
comment-out this line:
ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"
Add these lines, adjust as necessary (subnet seems to always be /20):
defaultrouter="172.31.48.1"
ifconfig_xn0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
ifconfig_xn0_alias0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
4. Shutdown instance
> shutdown -p now
5. Create new Elastic IP(s) in EC2 dashboard and point them to your private IP(s)
6. Start instance